Robert Pape

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2,835 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Jun

Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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They were doing tactical operations and they're being promoted about they're the best of the best at tactics.

But what's happening when they're a mid-level officer, when they're about to become a general,

is this is a different game now.

They're not going to be in those cockpits now.

This is not the same thing.

They're going to now have to think about strategy.

Strategy is a different outcome.

And the reason is because with tactics, what you're thinking is how bombs hit a target or how ships block other ships.

With strategy, it's how does that military action affect politics?

Politics.

No matter how many times, how many sorties you've flown in either an F-117, a B-2, or an F-35, you're not focusing on politics there.

That's just not happening.

When you're suddenly now in the game of strategy, it's if I do X to the enemy, what is it going to do politically to the enemy?

This isn't just a matter of how many launchers I'm taking down.

That's my lane.

That's what I deal with in Bombing to Win, my work on economic sanctions and blockades, which is another 30 years of work.

here is also about the same thing.

It's not just how to work.

I know a lot about the details of the tactics.

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